Disclaimer: I have nothing but total disdain for politics and politicians! I loath the ground they walk on and the air they breath! I present my information as 'issues', I feel is pertinent to our citizens as a whole!

UNITED WE WIN [politicians] - DIVIDED THEY LOSE [citizens]!!!

To view the H. R. 3200 file (.Pdf), you will need Adobe Acrobat or, you can download 'Foxit' which is a .Pdf file reader without all of the bloated options that comes with Acrobat! It downloads quickly, has no viruses and is easy to install!

The last link below, is a list of the concerns in this bill presently being rammed down our throats! It is only half the bill, I guess they're working on the other half- dunno! I have spent more than enough time on this as it is!

• Page 16: States that if you have insurance at the time of the bill becoming law and change, you will be required to take a similar plan. If that is not available, you will be required to take the government option!• Page 22: Mandates audits of all employers that self-insure!• Page 29: Admission: your health care will be rationed!• Page 30: A government committee will decide what treatments and benefits you get (and, unlike an insurer, there will be no appeals process)• Page 42: The "Health Choices Commissioner" will decide health benefits for you. You will have no choice. None.• Page 50: All non-US citizens, illegal or not, will be provided with free healthcare services.• Page 58: Every person will be issued a National ID Healthcard.• Page 59: The federal government will have direct, real-time access to all individual bank accounts for electronic funds transfer.• Page 65: Taxpayers will subsidize all union retiree and community organizer health plans (example: SEIU, UAW and ACORN)• Page 72: All private healthcare plans must conform to government rules to participate in a Healthcare Exchange.• Page 84: All private healthcare plans must participate in the Healthcare Exchange (i.e., total government control of private plans)• Page 91: Government mandates linguistic infrastructure for services; translation: illegal aliens• Page 95: The Government will pay ACORN and Americorps to sign up individuals for Government-run Health Care plan.• Page 102: Those eligible for Medicaid will be automatically enrolled: you have no choice in the matter.• Page 124: No company can sue the government for price-fixing. No "judicial review" is permitted against the government monopoly. Put simply, private insurers will be crushed.• Page 127: The AMA sold doctors out: the government will set wages.• Page 145: An employer MUST auto-enroll employees into the government-run public plan. No alternatives.• Page 126: Employers MUST pay healthcare bills for part-time employees AND their families.• Page 149: Any employer with a payroll of $400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays an 8% tax on payroll• Page 150: Any employer with a payroll of $250K-400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays a 2 to 6% tax on payroll• Page 167: Any individual who doesn't have acceptable healthcare (according to the government) will be taxed 2.5% of income.• Page 170: Any NON-RESIDENT alien is exempt from individual taxes (Americans will pay for them).• Page 195: Officers and employees of Government Healthcare Bureaucracy will have access to ALL American financial and personal records.• Page 203: "The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as tax." Yes, it really says that.• Page 239: Bill will reduce physician services for Medicaid. Seniors and the poor most affected."• Page 241: Doctors: no matter what specialty you have, you'll all be paid the same (thanks, AMA!)• Page 253: Government sets value of doctors' time, their professional judgment, etc.• Page 265: Government mandates and controls productivity for private healthcare industries.• Page 268: Government regulates rental and purchase of power-driven wheelchairs.• Page 272: Cancer patients: welcome to the wonderful world of rationing!• Page 280: Hospitals will be penalized for what the government deems preventable re-admissions.• Page 298: Doctors: if you treat a patient during an initial admission that results in a readmission, you will be penalized by the government.• Page 317: Doctors: you are now prohibited for owning and investing in healthcare companies!• Page 318: Prohibition on hospital expansion. Hospitals cannot expand without government approval.• Page 321: Hospital expansion hinges on "community" input: in other words, yet another payoff for ACORN.• Page 335: Government mandates establishment of outcome-based measures: i.e., rationing.

• Page 341: Government has authority to disqualify Medicare Advantage Plans, HMOs, etc.• Page 354: Government will restrict enrollment of SPECIAL NEEDS individuals.• Page 379: More bureaucracy: Telehealth Advisory Committee (healthcare by phone).• Page 425: More bureaucracy: Advance Care Planning Consult: Senior Citizens, assisted suicide, euthanasia?• Page 425: Government will instruct and consult regarding living wills, durable powers of attorney, etc. Mandatory. Appears to lock in estate taxes ahead of time.• Page 425: Government provides approved list of end-of-life resources, guiding you in death.• Page 427: Government mandates program that orders end-of-life treatment; government dictates how your life ends.• Page 429: Advance Care Planning Consult will be used to dictate treatment as patient's health deteriorates. This can include an ORDER for end-of-life plans. An ORDER from the GOVERNMENT.• Page 430: Government will decide what level of treatments you may have at end-of-life.• Page 469: Community-based Home Medical Services: more payoffs for ACORN.• Page 472: Payments to Community-based organizations: more payoffs for ACORN.• Page 489: Government will cover marriage and family therapy. Government intervenes in your marriage.• Page 494: Government will cover mental health services: defining, creating and rationing those services.

This is only half of the bill- guess they're still looking over the second half- dunno!

shewolf53

Aug 25 @ 3:28PM

I already have read what has been available on it and will read the rest as soon as it is ready. Can you tell how bored I have been? But it pays to read ALL of the bills that have effect on our lives. I always have since I was old enough to vote.

Which means there will be no continuing education for doctors and why should they get it they won't lose patients because they don't have any up to date treatments (well except for the ones who die) and they won't get paid more for getting better educated.

All non-US citizens, illegal or not, will be provided with free healthcare services.

And we will continue to pay out so they can go to the emergency room every time they get a hang nail..........not bad enough that our tax dollars are going to pay welfare for these people now we can expect to pay out even more.

Every person will be issued a National ID Healthcard

Yep I can hear it already...........................Your Papers Please................ one more way for big brother to watch what we are doing...............

private insurers will be crushed.

More of the Osama Obama lets make the unemployment levels rise plan..........

The federal government will have direct, real-time access to all individual bank accounts for electronic funds transfer.

They already control how much we have...........now they are going to have the control to take the rest away from us.................

Admission: your health care will be rationed!

Which will affect the elderly the most.................We are going to live in a country that we might as well make euthanasia legal because the sick won't be living for very long anyway.

I have nothing but total disdain for politics and politicians!

And i have less everyday with this bullshit.............if this health care program is such a good idea why do our politicians get exempt from it?

I've read parts of this previously, but the highlighted list simplifies the effort for searching the document for subjects I'm interested in learning more about. I do not like what I am reading... this is an understatement.

This is when calm, reason and clear judgment come into play. These issues should be addressed publicly and alternate solutions provided. As this bill stands I will lobby against it.

Here's a greenie for important documentation everyone needs to read and understand... NOW!

What, if anything, we will see will be far different. As written it won't fly.

Consequently, despite my interest in the issue, I see no reason to try to plow through it. Even if I love a book, it is unlikely I will be engaged enough to persevere through a 1,000 pages of it.

I suspect that the vast majority of people at the town hall meetings, both for and against, are motivated by their passion for a political ideology and are mouth pieces revved up by rhetoric and spins that they buy into.

My opinion will largely be forged by what organizations endorse what plan. For example, if the AMA, American Cancer Society, AARP, largely buy into a given plan, that is good enough for me.

After all, I don't have any say in the matter. Even though it is a very important issue, it is largely rhetorical for regular people. There may be a few people in so called swing states to where their views really count. But living in Dallas, Texas, a republican bastion, I know that my opinion will fall on deaf ears with my representatives, just as a republican who is merely a voter would in Boston.

My nickel minus three cents.

40DWM

Aug 25 @ 5:23PM

A++ on doing your homework. It'll be difficult for some to claim yourpages a 'lie', as so many have questioned facts presented previously.

A note about the AARP being on board......Big Deal, they are just 'another' insurance company that CLAIMS to be there for 'it's' customers. I know in this part of North Texas, AARP has all sorts of insurance commercials on the TV, just not as cute as the Lizard ones.

I'm still waiting for all those NAFTA pages to be in .Pdf, to see how badwe were really screwed.

LongLegsLooloo

Aug 25 @ 8:54PM

Umm..looks like these are simply YOUR interpretation of the "highlights," OP.

No need for "the liberals" to read it. "The liberals" HAVE read it. That's why "the liberals" are for it. "The conservatives" need to read it, then have "the liberals" go back over it with them, and explain what all the big words mean.

• Page 59: The federal government will have direct, real-time access to all individual bank accounts for electronic funds transfer.

I have a major issue with that idea as I do NOT want the government "helping themselves" to my bank account!

I suspect that the vast majority of people at the town hall meetings, both for and against, are motivated by their passion for a political ideology and are mouth pieces revved up by rhetoric and spins that they buy into

I agree with Bruce on that.

And just looking at these highlights here...there is NO WAY I would want this bill to pass. Like I've said before...when I think of health care reform..I think about bringing cost under control. One idea...stop allowing for frivolous lawsuits, not necessarily saying put a cap on rising costs of premiums, but, make premiums available based on income, but still getting quality care. I watched the fiasco with the cash for clunkers...and, if the government can't handle THAT, what makes them think they can handle health care?

No..as this bill stands, I'm against it. And I've already written my elected officials about it.

Whatever. Point is, they're not what's actually stated in the bill; they're someone's ERRONEOUS interpretation of what the bill states. Typical Republican paranoia.

To use your words: Whatever! Apparently you will disagree with anything that doesn't fit your liking- key words: fit your liking! If you disagree with an issue, then you have the right to counter with information refuting what I posted!

I won't let you try and draw me into a political argument as you surely are trying to do! This is NOT a Democratic or Republican issue! It is a citizen's issue as a whole- something that you apparently, refuse to acknowledge, being strictly one sided as you obviously are!

The basic idea of a 'two party system' that we have, is to discuss issues that will affect our citizens in this country and to come up with solutions for the good of our citizens. It's everything BUT that and BOTH parties are guilty of it! Pros and cons is what it's about! However, it's far more con than pro... at the moment anyway!

No need for "the liberals" to read it. "The liberals" HAVE read it. That's why "the liberals" are for it. "The conservatives" need to read it, then have "the liberals" go back over it with them, and explain what all the big words mean.

You mean like the H.R. 3200 Health Care Reform Bill itself, that no one in Congress cared to even bother to read in the first place??